Trevor Owens

Trevor is a senior at NYU studying Finance & International Business. Last year, he took a class called Ready, FIRE!, Aim, taught by Larry Lenihan, and adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at NYU and the CEO of FirstMark Capital. Larry was such an inspiring teacher that after his class ended Trevor went off looking for other students that he could work with and had different skills. This didn't work out so well. The process was so painful and difficult that he decided to start a club called Tech@NYU to help students meet each other. Their goal was, and still is, to be multi-disciplinary and include faculty and students from different programs that would otherwise never interact. Trevor got Tech@NYU off the ground by planning 5 events in 1 week and calling it NYU Startup Week. He asked a couple faculty members that were his mentors to come on as advisors, and invited a bunch of friends who were interested in tech to join as officers. After that was over the group continued planning events into the summer and just last week (first week of October, 2010) held the second NYU Startup Week.